Word: humanae
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...Luke's Episcopal Church. Musica Humana presents a program of Renaissance music at 3:30 p.m. at 7 St. Luke's Rd., Brighton. Free. Information...
...liberty taken with the final movement of the Handel was providing a chorus to intone the chorale upon which the movement is based. Since diction was near impossible given the echo, instrumental forces, and small number of singers, the effect was that of another organ coloration--a true vox humana--being added...
...slave laborers perished in the racial and religious mass murder of Naziism. But there were other victims whose "crimes" were individual and matters of conscience. Here, 57 such victims, most of them German Christians, speak their last from Hitler's charnel houses; their words blend into a vox humana whose organ tone speaks of things older than man's inhumanity...
...commercial symbols . . . and rites are rapidly replacing the church, the candles and the Psalms. These are the plush carpet, the exalted open casket, the heavily scented banks of funeral flowers, the dim, indirect light, distant recorded syrupy music replete with chimes and vox humana, all centered in the new dominant architecture of almost every community, the funeral home and chapel...
Whatever character the negotiations called for, the Great Actor had it: Mephistopheles in a baggy, black business suit; Daniel Webster, crouching behind his eyebrows; Billy Sunday, with the vox humana in his trombone voice; Bette Davis, crying like a curlew; John Barrymore, tearing an emotion to tatters...